Unit PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- A001177
- Curriculum
- Filosofia
- Teacher
- Nicoletta Ghigi
- Teachers
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- Nicoletta Ghigi
- Hours
- 54 ore - Nicoletta Ghigi
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2026
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Istituzioni di filosofia
- Sector
- PHIL-03/A
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The Memory of Time and the Time of Memory. Time, Temporality, and Temporalization
- Reference texts
- REQUIRED READINGS:
- Augustine: “The Confessions”:
- H. Bergson: “Matter and Memory”;
- M. Heidegger: “The Concept of Time”;
- P. Ricoeur: “Memory, History, and Oblivion”.
II SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS:
* Augustine, “The Confessions”;
* Aristotle, “Physics”;
* Bergson, H., “Duration and Simultaneity”;
* Derrida, J., “Giving Death”;
* M. Heidegger, “Being and Time”;
* E. Husserl, “On the Phenomenology of the Inner Consciousness of Time”;
* I. Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason”;
* J. Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”;
* Nietzsche, F., “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”;
* Mann, Th., “The Magic Mountain”;
* Plato, “Timaeus”;
* Ricoeur, P., “Time and Narrative”.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR INCOMING STUDENTS
- W.C. Dowling, “Ricoeur on Time and Narrative: An Introduction to Temps et récit,” JSTOR 2011;
- J.F. Callahan, “Four Views of Time in Ancient Philosophy,” Harvard University Press 1948.
Specific guidelines for working students and students with learning disabilities are published on UNISTUDIUM or, alternatively, arranged on a case-by-case basis with the instructor.
Students with disabilities and/or specific learning disabilities (SLD) are invited to visit the page dedicated to the available resources and accommodations and to make the necessary arrangements in advance with the instructor (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa). - Educational objectives
- The course aims the following learning' results, whose acquisition will be evaluated in the examination:
- Knowledge of the fundamental lines of philosophical position of Kierkegaard, Scheler and Kurzweil.
- Acquisition of tools and skills of the phenomenological concept of anthropology,
- Ability to apply tools acquired in a critical and individual way. - Prerequisites
- In order to understand the content of teaching, it is necessary that the student has an appropriate knowledge of the history of philosophy and of phenomenology, and knows how to make an atractive process of historical and conceptual considerations. Indispensable is a critical attention during lessons and an ability to find solutions to problems.
- Teaching methods
- 1. Theoretical lectures, in which the fundamental topics of the course will be covered;
2. Workshops and/or seminars led by students
3. “Lectio magistralis” delivered by internationally renowned scholars specializing in topics relevant to the course, and/or an in-depth lecture on the teaching of philosophy.
4. The option (optional) to complete a written assignment, in consultation with the students. - Other information
- The course will be held at the Fissuf Department, in a classroom to be determined.
The exam, however, will take place in Professor Ghigi’s office, located at Via Aquilone 8, 2nd floor.
Students with disabilities and/or specific learning disabilities (SLD) are invited to visit the page dedicated to the available resources and accommodations and to discuss any necessary arrangements with the instructor in advance (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa) - Learning verification modality
- he main object of assessment concerns the acquisition of the critical capacity and individual use of the methodologies and tools acquired during the course, through the critical and methodical reading of the texts indicated in the syllabus and according to the phenomenological method illustrated during the course of the lectures.In addition, the test verifies the following aspects: 1. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding, autonomy of judgement, understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgements, arriving at coherent reflections on social, scientific or ethical issues; 2. Communication skills, conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors; 3. Learning ability, understood as the ability required to progress in studies with a high degree of autonomy. The examination will take the form of a thirty-minute oral test in which the fundamental issues of the course will be covered.
In the event that the student intends to sit the exam in a year prior to the year scheduled in the study plan, it is recommended that he/she attends the cycle of lectures and takes the exam in the first useful call after the lectures have ended, thus respecting the semester of the teaching schedule.
Students with disabilities and/or SLDs are invited to visit the page on tools and measures and to agree in advance on what is necessary with the professor. (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa) - Extended program
- The purpose of this course is to analyze the theoretical evolution of the concept of time in the history of Western philosophy. Starting from the ancient conception linked to the idea of creation, movement, and extension, the course will highlight how the notion of objective time gave rise, in modernity, to the concept of subjective time, which is further subdivided—in the contemporary era—into three modes: objective (time), subjective (temporalization), and ante-predicative (temporality). In this exploration, the aspect of memory will represent the fundamental element through which to rediscover this evolution but, at the same time, also the driving force for a renewed philosophical anthropology that aims to place the fundamental theme of memory at the center of its investigations.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Code 3, 4, 16.